Wade v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtSnead, J.
On September 25, 1958, Wallace Parker Wade, appellant, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter as a result of an automobile accident in which Fred Melvin Dickerson received fatal injuries. The jury fixed his punishment at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of two years. The court, by its order of June 3, 1959, overruled defendant’s motion to set the verdict aside and sentenced him to confinement in the penitentiary for a term of three years. The imposition of a three-year sentence instead of the two-year sentence in accordance with the verdict was a clerical error, and is of no…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Anderson v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1944
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- Honesty v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1886
- Boggs v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1957
- Carson v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1948
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